Terry Pratchett doesn't like JK Rowling

[Particle_Man]

D'Oh. Stupid Typo. Yes, G.K. Chesterton...and other than "The Man Who Would Be Thursday: A Nightmare", most of his work is largely forgotten (though some is still in print).

I liked his "Father Brown" detective series. Father Brown even became a movie starring Sir Alec Guinness!

 

[WizarDru]

I liked his "Father Brown" detective series. Father Brown even became a movie starring Sir Alec Guinness!

It was a movie in 1937, a movie in 1954 (with Sir Alec) and a BBC TV series in 1976. (Thank you, IMDB). But that kind of reinforces my point: once a major author on the level of a Stephen King, now most of his works are barely remembered. Although, on the flip-side, he IS still remembered, as opposed to some authors of the time who are completely forgotten today.

 

[Imperialus]

Innovative is an author like Jasper Fford who has written an alternate history set in 1984 where characters and authors from classic literature such as Jayne Eyre and Othello are treated like sports heros or rock stars, complete with trading cards. The Crimian war has been going on for almost 200 years, and someone has developed a device that allows people to enter the pages of an orriginal manuscript and kidnap or kill someone in it thereby affecting every other printing of the book in the world. Jayne Eyre ends up getting kidnapped and held for ransom causing mass panic throughout the world.